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As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.
When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.
I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers.
I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.
It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a really big fan of public education.
I went to Paramount High School, Mayfair High School, all types of high schools. I'm not a high school graduate, but it's all good.
I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.
I was raised Jehovah's Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn't say that we were a religious family.
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.
You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.
Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
They may say, 'He's small. We really don't know if he can get the job done.' But they said that about me coming out of high school.
I was actually going to school to be a chiropractor but was also succeeding at bodybuilding - I did well in a few national contests.
How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?
Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.
Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.
I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.
Yet we didn't fix anything. Our roads are bad, our bridges are bad, our tunnels are bad, our schools are bad, our hospitals are bad.
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.
I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.
I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.
I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.
I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.
I grew up with Thundercats and She-Ra: Princess Of Power. That was sort of my take on fantasy: the women after-school cartoon world.
We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.
So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.